-aster
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin -aster (“little, petty, partial, incomplete”).
Suffix
-aster
- Used to form diminutive and pejorative nouns, labeling someone pretending to be what they are not.
Derived terms
Translations
-aster
Anagrams
- 'earts, Aters, Sater, Satre, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, earst, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From suffix originally forming Ancient Greek nouns from verbs ending in -άζειν (-ázein).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈas.ter/, [ˈäs̠t̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈas.ter/, [ˈäst̪er]
Suffix
-aster (feminine -astra, neuter -astrum); first/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- suffix of nouns or adjectives, expressing half, partial, or incomplete resemblance to the root word meaning; hence in some cases may be pejorative.
Declension
First/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | -aster | -astra | -astrum | -astrī | -astrae | -astra | |
Genitive | -astrī | -astrae | -astrī | -astrōrum | -astrārum | -astrōrum | |
Dative | -astrō | -astrō | -astrīs | ||||
Accusative | -astrum | -astram | -astrum | -astrōs | -astrās | -astra | |
Ablative | -astrō | -astrā | -astrō | -astrīs | |||
Vocative | -aster | -astra | -astrum | -astrī | -astrae | -astra |
Derived terms
Descendants
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English learned borrowings from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English suffixes
- English diminutive suffixes
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives with nominative masculine singular in -er
- Latin first and second declension adjectives